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...white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway's building for the past two years. After the old white folks leave, the Peruvian-born Rev. Amadeo Torres and his Spanish-speaking congregation go upstairs...
...biggest obstacle is cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites...
...members present cast ballots, while munching on Oreos, Dizzy Grizzlies and chips and salsa, after listening to short speeches and a question-and-answer session...
...have a big delegation from Colombia with the ambassador of Colombia, a steel band..., a mariachi group and a salsa group," he says. "There will [also] be lots of Spanish organizations and Portuguese [ones...
...what's the deal with the fish? As if Thursday night's Mohongahela Grouper wasn't poisonous eough, last night we were subjected to Tough Love Halibut and next week surely promises a round of Slappy Salsa Snapper. Is Harvard Dining Services fishing in Boston Harbor? Enough is enough. If they've got to have fresh catch, put a hook through the eye of a chicken. Quit it with the fish...